The twitter of ten year olds jolted her out of her reverie. She looked around for a second, confused. Drat!! Her mind had wandered again. Into the realm of "Little Women", which she was teaching her fifth standard students. She hoped her class had not seen her dreaming. "Excuse me" ,a little voice piped up. What was to follow was never known for the bell rang right then for recess. "Thank you Madam" , the class chorused while she quickly handed out prep work for the next day.
She picked up her books and walked out of the class to her room. A shy, soft spoken woman with eyes that told umpteen stories- all about her yearning and longing. Pretty in the conventional sense. Not just pretty, beautiful. In her mind she was still Meg being courted by John. Nah.. Laurie and Amy was better. She smiled wistfully; for it was chasing a mirage. That happiness was never going to be hers. For she was the Bride. Forever the Bride. Never the wife.
It was all predestined .Her parents promised to make her the chosen one even before she was born. A fact drummed into her head by the world from the ti...
Tommy is bored by his small town with its “ordinary lesson, complete with vocabulary and drills,” at school (p. 46, l. 137), and his mom not listening about his day, “Did you hear me?...You have chores to do.” (p. 58, l. 477-479) Everyone knows everyone else in Five Oaks. In comes Mrs. Ferenczi talking about things he and his classmates had never heard of before. Things like a half bird-half lion called a Sryphon, Saturn and its mysterious clouds, and sick dogs not drinking from rivers but waiting for rain all in one lesson (p. 55-56, l. 393-403). Ideas never stop coming and they branch out from each other before they are properly explained. Most of the kids feel she lies, but Tommy joins her in …. (Write here about how Tommy begins to make up stories like Mrs. F.) Think of the progression: looks-up “Gryphon” in the dictionary….makes-up “Humpster “ story….”sees” unusual trees on the bus ride home….yells at & fights
Early in the novel, Morrison primes the audience with how an ideal family should operate. She gives the audience a subtle taste of what the ideal girl should be. Jane, the subject of the excerpt, shows qualities of curiosity, friendliness, and happiness. By introducing Frieda, Pecola, Claudia, Rosemary, and Maureen Peal to the reader, Morrison adds vulnerability, confusion, and a worry-free attitude to the qualities of being a girl.
Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding tells the adolescence struggling of 12 year old Frankie, who starts to feel that she is no longer a child anymore. However she does not quite feel like a grown young woman either. Frankie has been in a constant state of uneasiness and discontent since the spring and this state of mind of hers reaches to its peak in summer. She spent her summer wandering around the arbor thinking about life and the purpose of her being, watching older teenage girls both envying both despising and hanging out in the same old kitchen, playing cards with her 6 year old cousin John Henry and her housekeeper, Berenice.
The wedding is celebrated an hour away from her hometown, so they are going to travel on a train. Every night, she would think about the long train ride over, but knew in the end, she would be away from the awful town. John Henry, her six-year-old cousin, always follows her around everywhere that she goes. He told her that he was running away with her, where ever she decided to go. After realizing that her brother was not going to let her stay with them, she runs away into the night. J...
Cory and I feel privileged to be sharing our day with all of our fiends and families who have been important to us during our lives. Many of you traveled from afar, Canada, Seattle, Illinois, Colorado and Arizona. Thanks to all of you for the efforts and sacrifices you have made to be with us today.
... with an uptight boyfriend, a mother who wants her to be perfect, and a job at the library that she despises. “In their minds {library co-workers}, I didn’t belong there” (44). “{Jason’s email} ‘I’m concerned that you’re not putting your full attention into the job’” (47). As the book goes on, Macy opens up, and starts working at Wish Catering all of the sudden. Also, her new friendship with Wes deepens gradually, and the process is expressed with adventures and stories that make you want to read on. At the very end of the novel, during the falling action, Macy gets over her grief and has a new perspective on what truly being happy and living your life is, shown here: “Forever was just so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about” (374). The author, Sarah Dessen, provides closure and ties the novel into real life.
"Take a paper out of the box, Davy.” "Harry, you hold it for him." Mr. Graves took the child's hand and removed the folded paper from the tight fist and held it while little Dave stood next to him and looked up at him wonderingly. "Nancy next," Mr. Summers said. Nancy was twelve, and her school friends breathed heavily as she went forward swishing her skirt, and took a slip daintily from the
The woman became exactly what she said she would: a beautiful, fair maiden; good and true. The knight then loved her like she wanted him to, and they lived in a blissful world.
“She was his forever, too- imperfect as she was. Take it or leave it, she thought. She was who she was” (Sparks 326). I choose this excerpt from the novel to portray a very beautiful moral of the story: that self-acceptance is challenging to come to terms with and should be celebrated when seen, especially in women. The Lucky One follows U.S. Marine Logan Thibault on his journey cross-country to thank a woman whose photograph appears to have saved him in several life-or-death situations in Iraq. Elizabeth is a divorced mother from North Carolina with a young son, and as they start to get close, Logan keeps the circumstances of his arrival a secret from everyone, including Elizabeth and her family. In the coming paragraphs I will be predicting
“Now you are no longer a slave but God's own child. And since you are his child, God has made you his heir.” Galatians 4:7 NLT
Picture Bride, released in 1995 and directed by Kayo Hatta, tells the story of many women living in Japan who were chosen to be brides by Japanese farm laborers living in Hawaii. The choice of the bride was based on their pictures. In this movie, Riyo wanted to leave Japan because her parents were killed by tuberculosis. She had heard great things about the paradise in Hawaii, and she agreed to be a picture bride. Riyo’s new husband was Matsuji, and based on his picture he seemed to be young, maybe in his twenties. Riyo was disappointed to find out that he had given her an old photo, and he was actually forty-three years old; older than Riyo’s father. Riyo was also disappointed to see her home as a shack. She continually tried to refuse Matsuji as her husband, starting on her wedding day when she wouldn’t allow him to help her off of the wagon, and then when she bit his hand when he tried to consummate the wedding night. She decided to try saving money to return to her aunt in Japan. Since Riyo was a city girl, she was also homesick because the work on the sugar cane plantation was very difficult for her due to her frailness. Riyo became best friends with a Japanese picture bride named Kana, who was also saving up to return to Japan. To help Riyo make more money to save, Kana introduced Riyo to ‘the laundry business’, which involved washing the white folk’s laundry, and delivering it to them. Kana ended up dieing in a fire on the sugar cane plantation when she tried to save her small son. Riyo continued the laundry business, and the story ended with Riyo and Matsuji making love; symbolizing that they were finally husband and wife.
Elle is more of a fashion chick and does not take importance of other things like studying hard; this is why Warner broke up with her in the first place. But she is not a girl with a high IQ, so she was not easily accepted to Harvard. Her incentive is to convince the admissions advisor through the importance of love, and so, she gets admitted. Elle is happy to see Warner but she discovers that Warner has a serious girlfriend just like he wanted. Unhappy about what she discovers, Emmett brings her hope, A Chip on her Shoulder, and makes her believe that by studying more she will have what she wants. Surely, Elle studies plenty enough that it impresses all her classmates including the teacher. Warner proposes to his new girlfriend in front of Elle. Shocked of what Elle has observed, she becomes very disappointed. Like always, Emmett is there to help her, so he gives her the list of the students admitted to the internship and Elle’s name was present. She is again delighted and forgets about Warner. Yet, she does not earn Warner back, but what she does earn is respect and a higher
True love is real. It is always real because it feels real. True love is experiential and embodied. In “Princess Bride,” the story of true love takes us on a journey to a fantastic Ireland and its incredible landscapes, such as Cliffs of Moher. The main protagonists, Westley and Buttercup, are truly in love with each other, and nothing can take them apart. Their lives took an unexpected turn, and they had to be separated from each other. Buttercup thought that her beloved Westley had died. That is why she had decided to marry Prince Humperdinck. Yet, she was not in love with the Prince. Buttercup had clearly understood that her love for Westley was the only real love of her life. During their life quests for their love and, ultimately,
Elbert, Sarah. “Reading Little Women.” Temple University Press (1984): 151-65. Rpt in Novels for Students. Ed. Elizabeth Thomason. Vol. 12. Detroit: Gale, 2001. 144. Print.
The young man is confronted with numerous predicaments in the story. He attempts to handle them himself and not with the help of his bride, the bride’s parents, Piet and the black people who are involved. The predicament that his bride-to-be will stay in his caravan in the hot Kalahari alone with the other black people when his gone and the mutual understanding between the young man and Piet when she will be living with the young man, how will he handle Piet? One would find that there is a clear divide between the young man and the black people that reside with him on the camp. He would merely see them as assets to him, than actual people that are employed by the government to help him with his work. This contrast between him and the black people play a major role in the predicaments the young man finds himself.